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"May the Lord grant that many women like you be born in this
country, and devote their lives to the betterment of their motherland!

I have something to say in regard to the article you have written
about me in the Bharati. It is this. It has been for the good of India
that religious preaching in the West has been and will be done. It has
ever been my conviction that we shall not be able to rise unless the
Western people come to our help. In this country no appreciation of
merit can yet be found, no financial strength, and what is most
lamentable of all, there is not a bit of practicality.

There are many things to be done, but means are wanting in this country. We have brains, but no hands.

We have the doctrine of Vedanta, but we have not the power to reduce
it into practice. In our books there is the doctrine of universal
equality, but in work we make great distinctions. It was in India that
unselfish and disinterested work of the most exalted type was preached;
but in practice we are awfully cruel, awfully heartless -- unable to
think of anything besides our own mass - of - flesh bodies.

Yet it is only through the present state of things that it is possible
to proceed to work. There is no other way. Every one has the power to
judge of good and evil, but he is the hero who undaunted by the waves of
Samsara -- which is full of errors, delusions, and miseries -- with one
hand wipes the tears, and with the other, unshaken, shows the path of
deliverance. On the one hand there is the conservative society, like a
mass of inert matter; on the other, the restless, impatient, fire -
darting reformer; the way to good lies between the two. I heard in Japan
that it was the belief of the girls of that country that their dolls
would be animated if they were loved with all their heart. The Japanese
girl never breaks her doll. O you of great fortune! I too believe that
India will awake again if anyone could love with all his heart the
people of the country -- bereft of the grace of affluence, of blasted
fortune, their discretion totally lost, downtrodden, ever - starved,
quarrelsome, and envious. Then only will India awake, when hundreds of
large - hearted men and women, giving up all desires of enjoying the
luxuries of life, will long and exert themselves to their utmost for the
well - being of the millions of their countrymen who are gradually
sinking lower and lower in the vortex of destitution and ignorance. I
have experienced even in my insignificant life that good motives,
sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul
possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of
hypocrites and brutes."